Title link takes you to a track "rebel_droid_-_a_single_voice" by Rebel Droid. See if you can guess the synth used."Last night I was working on my synthesis chops with a particular synth and when I struck upon a fun little idea that is the polar opposite of the way I normally work. I make nu-skool breaks most of the time and tend to make things extremely complex and densely layered but tonight I made a complete little song using just 3 oscillators, a ring mod and a noise source from a single mono patch. It was recorded on the fly in one take with no overdubs and no multitracking and no rehearsing. There are also no effects whatsoever except for a small delay and a convolution reverb. There isn't even any eq.
It's basically me playing an arp pattern mostly with one hand while tweaking knobs with the other but don't let that fool you.. it's kind of surprising how well it turned out. It's a little unpolished of course but it is just about a complete song and, yes, it is a single mono patch! I particularly like when the first bassline comes in and how I only turned the noise source on once near the beginning for percussion and it did the rest on it's own! There's a lot of randomness and little bleeps and squeals in there that I can't fully explain. It's also interesting that if you played the patch normally without the arp and with all the oscillators it doesn't sound anything like this!
It's not an earthshattering concept by any means but it's kind of a testament to what you can do with limited resources, some strict constraints and a little creativity.
Anyway.. I deliberately left out what synth it is to see if anyone can guess or at least guess what they think it sounds like."
I'm pretty confident this is a DSI evolver. The noise osc gave its away for me.
ReplyDeleteableton operator?
ReplyDeletehmm. there's a delay, an arp, it's 'mono', so probably a mono evolver.
ReplyDeleteion?
ReplyDeleteTurns outiIt was the Novation V-Station.
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